{"id":1781,"date":"2011-02-11T09:05:44","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T14:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/?p=1781"},"modified":"2011-02-11T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T14:05:44","slug":"html5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/html5\/","title":{"rendered":"HTML(5?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/html5doctor.com\/html5-living-standard\/\"><span class=\"first-letter\">B<\/span>ruce Lawson and John Foliot debate<\/a> the wisdom of WHATWG&#8217;s abandonment of HTML version numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The only function of a DOCTYPE is to keep the browser out of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quirks_mode\">Quirks Mode<\/a>. The\u00a0<abbr>HTML<\/abbr>5 DOCTYPE\u00a0<code>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;<\/code> is the shortest string that does this reliably. And note that there&#8217;s no version number on that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>John:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My larger objection is around perception of the spec: developers who think that just because it&#8217;s spec&#8217;ed at<abbr>WHATWG<\/abbr> this week that it&#8217;s good to go, bring it on, to heck with permanence and legacy! It&#8217;s a continued &#8220;fix-it-in-the-mix&#8221; attitude far-removed from the real world of large corporations and government.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Lawson and John Foliot debate the wisdom of WHATWG&#8217;s abandonment of HTML version numbers. Bruce: The only function of a DOCTYPE is to keep the browser out of\u00a0Quirks Mode. The\u00a0HTML5 DOCTYPE\u00a0&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt; is the shortest string that does this reliably. And note that there&#8217;s no version number on that. John: My larger objection is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[18,43],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1781\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fullstopinteractive.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}